This paper describes the results of three studies investigating an embodied agent that supports its interaction with the user by gazing at corresponding objects within its close e...
Johann Schrammel, Arjan Geven, Reinhard Sefelin, M...
People have developed a variety of conventions for negotiating face-to-face interruptions. The physical distribution of teams, however, together with the use of computer-mediated ...
Task-selection policies are critical to the performance of any architecture that uses speculation to extract parallel tasks from a sequential thread. This paper demonstrates that ...
Mayank Agarwal, Kshitiz Malik, Kevin M. Woley, Sam...
MapReduce is emerging as an important programming model for large-scale data-parallel applications such as web indexing, data mining, and scientific simulation. Hadoop is an open-...
Matei Zaharia, Andy Konwinski, Anthony D. Joseph, ...
Skew is prevalent in data streams, and should be taken into account by algorithms that analyze the data. The problem of finding "biased quantiles"-- that is, approximate...
Graham Cormode, Flip Korn, S. Muthukrishnan, Dives...